It’s already a wild French Open, with Jessica Pegula, Elena Rybakina, Jasmine Paolini, Taylor Fritz, Ben Shelton, Daniil Medvedev, Stefanos Tsitsipas, and Jannik Sinner out already — the path for Djokovic and Zverev is wide open, and honestly, yuck — and Tiafoe surviving a scare. (Alcaraz isn’t there because he’s hurt, a wrist injury that has Reddit FREAKED OUT.) At least Naomi Osaka is still in, long enough to deploy more than one special skirt. Adam Lefkoe remains the worst commentator; he’s toned it down a little since last year, but still, hard pass. (The whole TNT/HBO Max table is underwhelming.) “She’s turning the Met Gala into the Net Gala,” he said of Naomi. That doesn’t even make SENSE. She’s not AT the Met Gala. You could say that of Venus at the 2025 Met with her Lacoste outfit, and that’s IT.
Global warming basically knocked Sinner out: The world No. 1 was winning 2 sets to love and up 5-1 in the third set, and then suddenly cramping set in, he eventually lost 18 points in a row, and just like that he’s going home. Sinner has been plagued by this before, but these tournaments just seem to be getting hotter and hotter, and he’s not the only one struggling. That Wimbledon rain must be sounding pretty good right about now.
